Do Dwarf african bullfrogs have orange on them ?

[Jace]

There is no such a thing as a Dwarf African Bullfrog. There is the African Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus edulis) and the Giant Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus).

The Giant Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) is a Highveld species which is the more common green frog available on the market.

The African Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus edulis) is a species from Natal up to Mozambique and is often a olive brown colour and smaller.

Good to know, thank you! So when I say I have three African Bullfrogs who match the description of the Giant Bullfrog, I am actually making an error? I love learning new things about my frogs! I am going to have to do more research on this, I think.

[Buck Rogers]

The one in your aviator pic is the Giant Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus).

It has seemed to become known as the Giant African Bullfrog for some reason or another. There seems to be a lot of different conflicting information on the net (as there always is). Most websites don't even differentiate the difference between the 2 species and I even saw on wikipedia that they were not even listed as a threatened species which is totally incorrect.

A great book to get your hands on is "A complete guides to the frogs of Southern Africa" by Vincent Carruthers and Louis Du Preez. You can probably order it from Amazon and Kalahari.net (http://www.kalahari.net/books/A-Comp.../34090322.aspx Its a great book and will clear this up for you nicely. Also comes with a CD with the frog calls of Southern African species.

[Buck Rogers]

I'm sure John will be able to clear this up a bit better than me as he has far more experience in this field than myself, but this is the problem with referring to species by common names because they differ from place to place.

As monitor lizard keepers it becomes so important to refer to a species by its latin name because animals from the same species can differ so greatly just from locality and sub species, like the rock monitor (Varanus albigularis). Its commonly know as the rock monitor, Southern African rock monitor, black throat, white throat, cape rock monitor, veldt leguanna and many more. You can imagine the confusion that takes place when trying to get that sorted out... And I won't even get started on the Indonesian tree monitor species